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Q/A: Best weather websites or resources?

What are the best websites for weather resources? There’s too many to choose from!

This may be a frequent question given the near-blizzard conditions now in Kansas. One option is to check Google’s Weather links at www.google.com/Top/News/Weather, which contains weather categories and also 40+ specific weather-related sites (no doubt some you’ve never heard of). The big advantages are that you can:

  • Skim one-line descriptions of each site
  • Sort websites by alphabetical order or by Google PageRank (how popular a site is)

If you just need a quick peek at local weather forecasts, you can:

  • Go to bing.com and search “weather zipcode” (ex: weather 66502 for Manhattan)
  • On PCs, add weather-forecast plug-ins such as ForecastFox (for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox) to your web browser
  • On Macs, click the weather widget on the Dashboard (function-F12)

K-Staters can share more weather resources via e-mail to TellTuesday@k-state.edu.

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About Betsy Edwards

• Web/information specialist in Information Technology Services • Editor/writer, K-State IT communications • IT News blog moderator • ETDR specialist